UMEB: Research Integrating Molecular and Environmental Sciences (R.I.M.E.S.) Program

分子与环境科学整合研究（R.I.M.E.S.）该计划是一项国际研究和教育合作。 它是为那些已经完成两年大学学业并致力于海洋或环境科学研究事业的积极性很高的少数民族学者而创建的。 正如杰克逊博士在马萨诸塞州海湾社区学院为非传统学生开设的非常成功的生物技术项目一样，R.I.M.E.S.该计划是，持续的跨学科研究培训加上密集的指导，推动非传统学者在科学方面的成功。 其目标是在海洋和环境科学领域培养一支杰出的、人数众多的少数民族研究人员队伍，他们将为各自的领域带来特色和急需的多样性。该计划发生在波士顿大学医学院（BUSM），并为博士学位课程的学术严谨性做好准备。 这是通过密集的辅导和严格的教程，旨在提高学者在他们的初级和高级年的学术表现。 学者被选入R.I.M.E.S.通过严格的申请程序，旨在识别和招募最积极的个人。 招聘的重点是那些个人情况使传统大学教育难以或不可能的男性和女性。 因此，招聘主要来自三类大学生：（1）来自单亲家庭（美国两个最危险的社会群体）的年轻非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔男性，（2）孩子12岁及以上的单身母亲，（3）推迟教育以抚养孩子的已婚妇女。 来自这些类别的学者在面临压倒性障碍的情况下进入大学。 因此，他们已经具备了推动一个成功科学家职业生涯的人类素质：坚持不懈，专注，足智多谋，狡猾和坚韧。 R.I.M.E.S.该计划促进了这些属性的利用，使学者实现并期望持续的学术卓越。该计划通过对蒙特塞拉特（北方安的列斯群岛）火山岛夏季实地研究中收集的生物进行分子调查，将海洋和环境科学与分子生物学相结合。 来自若干国家的资深海洋和环境科学家组成的研究导师团可在蒙特塞拉特指导学者，并在他们返回杰克逊博士在BUSM的实验室后（通过电子邮件、电话和传真）向他们提供指导。 这些研究项目集中于苏弗里埃火山爆发（1995年和1997年）和持续活动对蒙特塞拉特生态系统造成的环境压力的影响。 这场大灾变所产生的环境突变为在分子水平上研究生态系统的发展提供了难得的机会。 研究的重点是生物体对火山引起的突然环境变化的适应性反应中被修改的分子过程。

The Research Integrating Molecular and Environmental Sciences (R.I.M.E.S.) Program is an international research and educational collaboration. It was created for highly motivated minority scholars who have completed two years of college and who are committed to research careers in marine or environmental sciences. As with Dr. Jackson's highly successful Biotechnology Program for nontraditional students at Massachusetts Bay Community College, the guiding philosophy of the R.I.M.E.S. Program is that continuous interdisciplinary research training coupled with intensive mentoring drive the success of nontraditional scholars in science. The goal is to produce an outstanding and numerically significant corps of minority researchers in the marine and environmental sciences who will bring distinction and much-needed diversity to their fields.The academic component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program occurs at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and prepares scholars for the scholastic rigor of a doctoral-degree program. This is achieved through intensive mentoring and rigorous tutorials designed to enhance the academic performance of scholars during their junior and senior years. Scholars are selected to the R.I.M.E.S. Program through a rigorous application process designed to identify and recruit only the most motivated individuals. Recruitment focuses on men and women whose personal circumstances made traditional college education difficult or impossible. Thus, recruitment is primarily from three categories of college sophomores: (1) young African-American and Hispanic males from single-parent families (the two most at-risk societal groups in the nation), (2) single mothers whose children are 12 years and older, and (3) married women who deferred their education to raise children. Scholars from these categories attend college in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Thus, they already possess the human qualities that drive the career of a successful scientist: persistence, focus, resourcefulness, guile and tenacity. The academic component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program promotes the utilization of these attributes so that scholars achieve and expect continuous scholastic excellence.The research component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program integrates marine and environmental science and molecular biology through molecular investigations at BUSM of organisms collected in summer field research on the volcanic island of Montserrat (Northern Antilles). A corps of research mentors, established marine and environmental scientists from several countries, is available to guide the scholars on Montserrat and (by e-mail, phone and fax) after they return to Dr. Jackson's lab at BUSM. The research projects converge on effects of the environmental stresses exerted on the ecosystem of Montserrat by the eruptions (in 1995 and 1997) and ongoing activity of the Soufriere Hills volcano. The abrupt environmental changes produced by this cataclysm provide a rare opportunity to study ecosystem development at the molecular level. The investigative focus is on molecular processes that have been modified in adaptive response of organisms to sudden environmental changes caused by the volcano.